Words as therapy

One of the reasons I decided to try to start writing again on this blog was that I was already doing so much daily writing. Journaling has always been one of my two main go-to methods of therapy. When I’m in the grip of a particularly acute attack of anxiety or a sleepless night, I can easily fill pages with “Dear Diary”-type dreck of varying degrees of navel-gazing. The value of this kind of writing to anyone besides me is questionable. On the other hand, clearly I’m not the only person struggling with mental health issues; in my case, mostly anxiety and insomnia secondary to that anxiety. Online blogging is a way to share what I’m going through with others, both to help me process it and, ideally, to start a conversation that can help some of my readers too. And if nothing else, it’s a way to leverage at least some of those hundreds of words I’m scribbling each day for better use.

Now that I’ve released this blog from its previous topic constraints, you can expect to read more about mental health, both my own and in general.